The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-16
NEWS OF TftE WEEK

except q sleeper, were InTOWu lHGO d
ditch. Two train men and six passen-
gers were injured, the train hands
dangerously.
William Dennis, aged II years,
was killed by lightning while working
on an ore bank at Plymouth, Penna.,
on the 9th.
An explosion occurred in the Cell
mite Manufacturing Works at Airing
ton, New Jersey, ON the morning of
the 9TH, by which Miss ArIana Much
more aud a man named August were
killed: The works, consisting OF three
brick buildings, were destroyed, and
the loss is estimated at $4,000. A
number of buildings in the village
were damaged, and people in houses
were thrown down by the shock.
About fifty persons of both X were
employed in the factory, and all were
injured, six seriously. One, a man
named Fay. of Newark, is IN a critical
| condition. The loss by damage to
property in the town is estimated at
several Thousand dollars. The factory
was owned by Philadelphia capitalists,
Fifty acres of land in East At
Gibson, Missouri, have been washed
away by a flood in the river within
the last forty-eight hours. THE
school house, which a month ago
stood a quarter of a mile from the
river bank, was moved east, and the
ground on which it stood is now in the
river. The bank at that point is per-
p%endicular, and thirty feet high. All
the residents of that portion of the
town have been forced to hastily re-
move their houses or abandon them to
] the mercy of the river" The cur
| rent has washed out a bed of quick
sand, which underlies a stratum of
clay, and the undermined sections of
clay have tumbled into the river.
Tie crops in Southern Minnesota
are reported to be in bad condition,
owing to drought and chinch bugs. In
the central and northern sections of the
State and in Dakota the crops are doing
well. The country around Perham,
Minnesota, is suffering from a plague
of ~locusts. Everything is covered with
them, and they have utterly devoured
thousands of acres of vegetation.
Matthew Kennedy. the principal
in the fur robbery at Cleveland, Ohio,
is said TO be IN custody in Lansing,
Michigan.
summer cholera Is more prevalent
in Montreal this season than for many
years, and the mortality among chill
dren is alarming.
William Bowman and his sister
in-laW, Miss Eunice Mckinney, were
killed by lightning while standing
under a tree during a thunder storm
at Palestine, Texas, on the evening of
the 7th. Lynn Cooper, 16 years of age,
was accidently killed in Broome county,
New York, on the evening of the 18th,
by the discharge of a pistol he was
handling. John ID. Van Gorden, SO
years of age, was stung by a bee on the
wrist at Dingman's Ferry, Penna., on
the morning of the 9th, and died
shortly after. Jennie Durham, aged
10. and her nephew, aged IL years,
were drowned on the Sth at Rockland,
Massachusetts, by the upsetting OF a
boat. John Short and James Huckiski
we're fatally injured on the afternoon
or the Sth by the explosion Of a boiler
in the Excelsior mine at Oskaloosa,
Iowa. A telegraph pole at a street
corner in New York, which was eaten
away at the base, fell on the 9th, kill
ing John McGarry, aged ID years.
Oscar NJ. Kelly, a wife murderer,
was taken from the Jail at Dalles, Ore
gon on the morning of the 7th and
lypched. DR.. E. n. North, shot at
Peru, Indiana, on the morning of the
Qfh ku To ~ 10 oh ricfiancnn 1fa1 on tho
9Th. Christensen was taken from the
jail on the evening of the 9th by a mob
and lynched. Lewis Walker, a colOred
miner, was shot and killed by Stella
Williams at McDonald's Penna, on
the evening of the 18th. He had been
living with the woman and threatened
to leave her. Benjamin Craig and John
Hill were killed by the latter's elder
brother, Green b. Hill, in a quarrel
near Tucker, Texas, on the 7th.
The health officers of st. Louis
on the 7th reported that the proprietor
of a dairy who keeps so COWS and
supplies a large section with milk, has
been serving milk from animals sick
of pleuro. pneumonia. Fifteen cows
died during the last week and the
OlutI5 dlC DlChs u llioRCCbOl hV-
stroyed fifty gallons Of diseased milk
found on the premises. One other
dairy in the nelghbOrhOod is infected,
1t is supposed the disease wa commun-
lcated by some Texas cattle driven
through a pasture where the dairy
COWS were feeding.
Near Wilmington, North Caro-
Ina. on the morning of the It'll, Alfred
SOyke, a farm hand, shot and killed g
man named Mills, superintendent of
the farm, who had discharged him the
day before. Clel. McElroy and Alex
ander Renich, horse trainers OF Leb-
anon, Kentucky, having quarrelled,
each resolved to kill the other on sight.
They met on the 9th, and McElroy,
who was armed with a double-baTrelled
shot gun, killed his antagonist.
The reports of the murders of
Chinese miners on Snake river, in
Idaho, are discredIted in Portland,
Oregon. 1t IS believed there that the
bodies found In the water were those OF
Cinnamon accidentally drowned. THE
Chinese work bars in Snake river which
pay 60 to Is cents per day, and no
white man wants to work for that
sum-"
Eight Italian miners were impris-
oned in the Sturgeon River Mine at
Metropolitan, Michigan, on the evening
of the It'll, by a rush Of water, which
prevented their escape. All are given
up for drowned.
While rock was being blasted on
the line of a railroad extension in York
county, South Carolina, on the morn
ing of the 9th, twelve kegs of powder
were ~accidently exploded, killing
nine men, one white and eight
colored. Three colored children were
burned to death near Tehula, Missis
sippi, on the 9th. Their parents went
to church, leaving them alone in the
house, which took fire. Charles Guis-
berg, - years of age, was shot and
perhaps fatally wounded by Frank
Parsons, a young playmate, in Wash
ington on the afternoon of the 9th.
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